Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas (Eds.), Mixed Race Hollywood, New York University Press, 2008, 325 pp. [Review] International Journal of Communication Issue 4 (2010) pages 139-141 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In the wake of “Obama-mania,” conventional wisdom about racial identity is facing a set of new and unique challenges. It is therefore…
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So… What Are You, Anyway? Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2011-03-25 through 2011-03-26 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its third annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26, 2011 on the Harvard University campus. The event is open to…
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Adults’ Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Journal of Black Psychology Volume 29, Number 4 (November 2003) pages 463-480 DOI: 10.1177/0095798403256888 Gayle L. Chesley Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia William G. Wagner A between-groups experimental design was used to examine adults’ attitudes toward multiracial children of African descent. The purpose was to determine if the races of the…
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Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else? Mixed-Race in Science Fiction Movies New York University Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center 50 West 4th Street New York, New York 2011-03-28, 18:00-19:30 EDT (Local TIme) Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst Join BAMSA, The Center, and the A/P/A Institute for another installment of the Multiple Identity Speaker Series: Monsters,…
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Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas Texas Tech University Press 2003 256 pages 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches Paper ISBN-10: 0896725162, ISBN-13: 978-0896725164 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, black runaways braved an…
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Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of “The Invisible Line” The Christian Science Monitor 2011-02-23 Stacie Williams, Monitor Contributor In “The Invisible Line,” law professor Daniel J. Sharfstein uses the stories of three families to explore the fluid nature of racial identity in America. Race has never been an easy concept in this country; the…
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Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…
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Mixed-Race Americans Are on the Rise: Will It Change Communications? New York Women in Communications February 2011 In a new series by The New York Times, titled Race Remixed [Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above], reporter Susan Saulny looks at the impact of one of our country’s fastest-growing demographic groups,…